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Kids Activities Blog is Holly'due south blogging home.

She is the co-author of 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! and The 101 Coolest Uncomplicated Science Experiments.

She is the mom of iii boys ages xiii, xv & 17 who partially homeschools. She believes that you shouldn't take to buy stuff to have fun when at that place is a kitchen junk drawer full of possibilities.